Who is RAEL and the Raelians?

"At the age of 27, on the morning of December 13, 1973, while he was still leading his successful racing-car magazine, RAEL had a dramatic encounter with a human being from another planet, at a volcano park in the center of France, known as "Puy de Lassolas". This extra-terrestrial gave him a new detailed explanation of our origins and information on how to organize our future, as recorded in the book: Intelligent Design. After six consecutive meetings in the same location, Rael accepted the mission given to him, to inform humanity of this revolutionary message and to prepare the population to welcome their Creators, the Elohim, without any mysticism or fear, but as conscious and grateful human beings."
https://www.rael.org/rael

"Raël[a] (born Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon,[b] 30 September 1946),[2] is the founder and current leader of the UFO religion known as Raëlism."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABl

"According to the Raelian Movement, the Elohim are a human-like alien race that created life through scientific processes on Earth."
https://www.learnreligions.com/elohim-within-the-raelian-religion-95931

"Clonaid stunned the world last week by claiming that a woman had given birth to the first-ever cloned human being, a little girl the company is calling Eve.

Clonaid, founded by members of a sect called the Raelians, believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials"
https://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/03/cf.opinion.rael/

"The International Raelian Movement, which believes life on Earth was created by extraterrestrial beings, officially ended its support for Zionism on Tuesday, after its leader claimed to have received a divine prophecy condemning Israel.

A statement from the Raelians said that their leader, Rael (Claude Vorilhon), was told in an August 6 prophesy from Yahweh, the head of the extraterrestrial beings called the Elohim, that “protection” for Israel had been withdrawn due to Israeli policies on the Palestinians."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/alien-believing-group-ends-support-for-zionism/

"In the first of several meetings, Yahweh, a member of the Elohim (“those who come from the sky”) revealed himself as Raël’s biological father and gave Vorilhon the name Raël."
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dbromley/undergraduate/spiritualCommunity/Raelians.html

"The Raelian philosophy offers another perspective on how life started on Earth and on the purpose of this life: Thousands of years ago, scientists from another planet came to Earth and created all forms of life, including human beings, whom they created in their own image. References to these scientists and their work can be found in the ancient texts of many cultures. [The] Hindu pantheon is a perfect illustration. Due to their highly advanced technology, they were considered gods by our primitive ancestors and referred to as “Elohim” in ancient Hebrew, which means “those who came from the sky.”"

"Maitreya Rael explained that if they were walking on the streets of Tokyo, no one would notice them, as they bear similarities in their facial features and statureas people from Japan."
http://www.motherlandmagazine.com/keep-it-rael/

"About 25 people in Dade, and 45,000 adherents worldwide, are members of a "religion" that believes that Claude Vorilhon, a former French race-car magazine editor, is their messiah, working on behalf of beings called the Elohim, extraterrestrials who first took him aboard a spaceship in 1973."
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/they-walk-among-us-6361928